What Age Do You Feel Mentally?

tinytn said:
I feel younger then i look! mentally im losing it, but refuse to take Prevagen !!
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I look younger than I feel some days...lol...as you all know I'm 67... but I can't tell any difference in my mental thoughts and mindset from when I was in my 40's.... altho' the last 18 months has made me a lot wiser.. those of you who know.. will know why..
 
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Some days I feel like in my twenties or thirties, somedays I feel as though I am mentally close to my age and other days I feel that I am mentally a lot older than my age. I guess it depends on the day and the events that are happening around me. I am glad that when I do have to make major decisions in my life that I do not make them with the mental mind of a 20 year old me :p
 
Based on how I am feeling the past week and today, I feel mentally close to my age
or actually older. On more good days I mentally feel about 60 or how I felt at that age
which was almost 10 years ago.
 
I was forced into maturity at a very young age, a kid dealing with adult issues. I went from twelve into my thirties, and I still relate myself at that maturity level. I know my body has broken down, I know I live the life of a retired guy, I know mentally I'm not as quick as I was, yet I just can't relate myself as a guy in his sixties...unless I look in the mirror.
 
Wrong question because until truly old age with mental deterioration, one's age reflects one's accumulated over time body of knowledge and mental skills. I still learn new complexities all the time that are built upon decades of knowledge and understandings, especially math and science. I'm also very athletic and active outdoors that vitalizes my whole creaturely body beyond just the brain.

The lifetime static IQ narrative has been proven to be mostly false in recent two decades. Due to the way the brain changes with neural plasticity, we are what we experience and do especially the more whatever is repeated. Thus potentially one's brain can continue to improve by filling it with appropriate growing knowledge. I'm much more intelligent in some ways now than EVER when younger while it is true that some mental gymnastics were easier when younger. Valid correct knowledge is like a complex building structure that grows over time with correct additions. Fill it with science and fact and it becomes better. Fill it with false information and garbage and the result is garbage. Over time from non-use or non-experience, that neural plasticity fades away. Although I learned to read and write C language software code from merely reading books at age 30, because I haven't done so for years, would require cracking open books and reviewing. But that would take much less time than when I began because neural pathways for that learning still exist and merely need some reviving use.

One can retain mental abilities by regularly exercising one's brain that becomes most important as seniors. How and what one does so is also important. As we age into our middle ages, our brains can also develop various age related issues. For instance not being able to recall names, or vision issues like presbyopia. Thus at some point, decline of mental abilities will occur that limits how far one can grow knowledge structure.
 
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